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<h2>Latest gomepost</h2>
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<h3>My relationship with <i>It’s a Good Life Honey If You Don’t Grow Weary</i></h3>
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<time datetime='Mon, 13 Feb 2023 23:00:00 CST'>13 Feb 2023, 11:00 PM</time>
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<p>Led by the gentle, confident warmth of Alexa Woodward’s voice</p>
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<h3>What do I think about lyrics?</h3>
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<time datetime='Tue, 14 Feb 2023 23:00:00 CST'>14 Feb 2023, 11:00 PM</time>
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<p>Well I’m glad you asked!</p>
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<time datetime='Tue, 14 Feb 2023 23:00:00 CST'>14 Feb 2023, 11:00 PM</time>
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I’ve written five<sup><a href='illinois.html' target='_blank'>1</a> <a href='pink-moon.html' target='_blank'>2</a> <a href='%EB%AC%B4%EB%84%88%EC%A7%80%EA%B8%B0.html' target='_blank'>3</a> <a href='colour-green.html' target='_blank'>4</a> <a href='weary.html' target='_blank'>5</a></sup> posts now about my relationships with different albums.
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They’re not really album reviews, but in each one, I tried to describe what I love about the music at least a little.
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Something I noticed yesterday, though, is that I have not once mentioned the lyrics of any of these albums.
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Strangely, despite having lots of thoughts about the music itself, I don’t think I usually have much to say about a given album or song’s lyrical content.
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With all the albums I’ve written about so far, I like and appreciate the lyrics*, but most of the time I don’t pay too much attention to them.
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I look up the lyrics to a song from time to time if I really want to know what it says.
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But often I won’t know the lyrics to a song I’ve heard dozens of times already, or I’ll mishear them and not bother to correct myself even if I know that can’t be right.
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<figcaption>I consider Adrianne Lenker to be an example of a great contemporary lyricist.<br/>Photo credit: <a href='https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Big_Thief_at_the_Lexington_-_32694587412.jpg#Licensing' target='_blank'>Paul Hudson</a></figcaption>
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Just because I don’t pay much attention to lyrics (at least initially) doesn’t mean they don’t factor into my enjoyment of music.
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If I get an “off” feeling from lyrics, I am less inclined to listen to come back to that music over the long term.
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I would describe the “off” feeling as an inability or unwillingness to identify with certain lyrics, or to align myself with their perspective, so to speak.
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What you listen to over & over again does wind up affecting & molding you, so it’s probably for the best that I weed out songs whose effects I don’t welcome.
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I think of lyrics less like a text or message that states something specific, and more like just another part of the music.
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With other elements of the music, it’s not like I’m thinking explicitly about what each part of the music “means” and exactly how it works with everything else.
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I just experience the whole thing as it comes to me, and if different elements stand out to me, I use whatever I gather from them to build my understanding of the piece as a whole.
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In the same way, I don’t need to explicitly understand a song’s lyrics to sense the role they play in creating the music’s feeling-world.
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I can just catch a line here or there and see how it supports & relates to whatever else I’m aware of in the song.
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This is why multiple listenings are so beneficial (and necessary) for me to appreciate a song.
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With all that said, sometimes lyrics really are one of my favorite things about a song.
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Some of the songs I love have truly great lyrics, that arguably stand on their own separate from the music.
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Maybe I’ll do a follow-up post about some of my favorite lyrics.
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How do you approach listening to lyrics?
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Do you pick and choose what you listen to based on the influence the lyrics have on you?
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What are some of your favorite lyrics?
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Let me know your thoughts at my Ctrl-C email: <code>gome<span style='user-select: none;'> ​</span>@<span style='user-select: none;'> ​</span>ctrl-c.club</code>.
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* The exception is <i>무너지기</i> (<i>Crumbling</i>), because I don’t speak Korean and I haven’t looked up a translation of them (well, I did once, but I don’t really remember much of what it said).
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Effects can be really cool and effective at supporting a main musical statement, but when things get too flashy, it starts to feel a little directionless.
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Jacob Collier is not the artist I’m here to write about, but rather 공중도둑 (Mid-Air Thief).
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When I was thinking about what initially drew me to the album <a href='https://midairthief.bandcamp.com/album/crumbling' target='_blank'><i>무너지기</i></a> (<i>Crumbling</i>), though, I remembered the same thing stood out to me: his use of effects.
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When I was thinking about what initially drew me to the album <a href='https://midairthief.bandcamp.com/album/crumbling' target='_blank'><i>무너지기</i></a> (<i>Crumbling</i>), though, I remembered the same thing stood out to me: his use of effects.
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Mid-Air Thief’s music is full of effects.
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The music is fundamentally unstable in its texture, with all sorts of sounds of mysterious origin flying in regularly.
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Often, the overall texture of the instrumental will just swap out completely between measures (though it never feels abrupt).
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